I'd say that Elm is such an easy thing to learn that I wouldn't worry about hiring Elm devs. If people know React and Redux then they already know the principle of how Elm works, and so learning syntax and how functional programming works is quite easy. I also think No Red Ink hires people new to Elm, and don't have any problems training those people up.
As for longevity, the company where the creator and lead-developer of Elm works, No Red Ink, has 55000 lines of Elm in production, and are pretty reliant on that technology. I don't see Elm going away any time soon. So to recap: 1. Elm is simple to learn. It was made for learning. Hiring people that don't know Elm shouldn't be a huge problem. (go through the syntax, how much is it really compared to ES2016?) 2. The company behind Elm has a huge stake in it's continued development, and they're not going anywhere soon. lørdag 5. november 2016 23.01.42 UTC+1 skrev Zacqary Adam Xeper følgende: > > Hey Elmos, > > I've finally gotten an opportunity to pitch Elm to my fairly large dev > team. I feel like I'm prepared to make the case for it against a lot of > objections: i.e. how will we learn yet another programming language, do we > really need something that never throws exceptions, etc. etc. > > The one thing I'm not really sure I'm prepared to answer is how I can be > sure that Elm isn't just another CoffeeScript or Dart, and in 2 or 3 years > we'll have an impossible time hiring anyone who knows how to use it because > everyone's going to go back to JavaScript. > > How do I convince Elm skeptics that this thing is here to stay? I can do a > great job of incorporating a small bit of Elm code into our stack to show > how great it is, but they won't even let me merge it into prod unless I can > make the case for its longevity. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
